Club information

Ground: Parc y Scarlets

Capacity: 14,870

Founded: 2003

The Scarlets were formed as the Llanelli Scarlets in 2003 following the regionalisation of Welsh rugby, they are one of the four professional Rugby Union regional teams in Wales and play in the town of Llanelli.

In their first season, a Scarlets squad containing many of the successful Llanelli RFC side of the preceding year won the inaugural Celtic league and reached the quarter-finals of The Heineken Cup.

In 2008 the Llanelli Scarlets moved to its new ground Parc y Scarlets and were renamed as simply Scarlets.